Legal Opinion
United States v. Clayton Fountain, Thomas E. Silverstein, and Randy K. Gometz
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 8, 1985No. 84-1939, 84-1940 and 84-1949PublishedCited by 175 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*793POSNER, Circuit Judge.
We have consolidated the appeals in two closely related cases of murder of prison guards in the Control Unit of the federal penitentiary at Marion, Illinois — the maximum-security cell block in the nation’s maximum-security federal prison — by past masters of prison murder, Clayton Fountain and Thomas Silverstein.
Shortly before these crimes, Fountain and Silverstein, both of whom were already serving life sentences for murder, had together murdered an inmate in the Control Unit of Marion, and had again been sentenced to life imprisonment. See United States v.…
2Cases cited34 opinions
- Furman v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
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- Curtis v. LoetherSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Nye & Nissen v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- United States v. PeoniCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1938
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